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[QUOTE]Originally posted by Mark Nguyen: [QB] I can talk BW for freaking HOURS. ;) Here's a quick overview of the whole series. Spoilers! "Beast Wars" tells the story of the descendants of the Autobots and Decepticons, now called Maximals and Predacons. Some 300 years after G1, Earth is off-limits for some reason and the Cybertronian race is at peace, more or less. Maximal starships explore the cosmos, dropping off brand new robots at each newly surveyed planet before moving on. The new guy(s), arriving in a "stasis pod", would scan their surroundings for local life and create a partially organic alternate form for the purposes of disguise, protection and exploration. Presumably they get picked up some time later. Note that by this time both Maximals and Predacons were much smaller than their engergon-guzzling predecessors, and can convincingly fit into the forms of the life they scan (for the most part - Rattrap for one would make a pretty large rodent even for New York). To the main plot: one day Megatron (not the ORIGINAL Meagtron, but a Predacon who has taken the name in his honor) steals the "Golden Disk", an ancient Earth artifact and presumably a map to undiscovered riches of energon. Recruiting a crew and stealing a transwarp-cpable ship (which in BW means it's possible to travel in time), he heads through time and space to a mysterious planet with two moons. The Maximal council sends the Axalon, a transwarp exploration ship, to intercept. In a familiar space battle, the ships shoot each other down, setting up a mirror of the G1 scenario which has Maximals and Predacons fighting across the planet from their respective crash sites / bases. However, before the Axalon crashed, Optimus Primal (again a namesake) had his dormant crew's stasis pods ejected into orbit. Thus, a large part of the first year's plot had to do with retrieving the pods as they crashed or landed before the Predacons could get to the new arrivals and reprogram them (they were rendered amnesiac becasuse of energon overload and were vulnerable until they could scan and adopt a local form). The planet, BTW, has extremely high levels of ambient energon - so high in fact that going around outside their shielded bases would cause them to overload and go into protective "stasis lock" or they would die. The solution to this is to create the aforementioned beast modes, which being partly organic (and based on local DNA) would provide a natural shield for the energon radiation. This was basically an excuse for everyone to go around mostly in beast mode instead of robot mode, where they could use their various robot abilites and weapons. Helps sell the toys, you see. The initial teams had five Maximals and five Predacons each, including one defecting Predacon (named Dinobot) heading over to the Maximal side when he figured his sense of honor didn't fit with his former crew. Two more transformers were added to each side over the course of the first year, the plots of which included fights with an alien race that was using the planet as a sort of evolutionary experiment, which by the end of the first season destroys one of the planet's moons. Other stories included various escape or rescue attempts from Cybertron, which is searching for them, and dealing with their beast modes for extended periods of time, which they were never programmed to do. The second year sees various additions, evolutions and subtractions to the cast (including Dinobot, who has quite possibly the best death scene in any animation EVAR). Along the way, we discover that the mysterious planet is in fact prehistoric Earth, and the Golden Disc is in fact the message disc attached to the 1970s Voyager spacecraft! Megatron thus reveals his plan, kept in secret for two years - he didn't come looking for energon to power a Predacon war. Instead, the original Megatron, guarding against failure, left a message in the Golden Disc for a plan for his descendants to find - to come back in time to a specific point and exterminate the first tribes of proto-humans at the dawn of their existence, about two million years ago. Failing in that, Megatron went to his own backup plan - THE ARK has been under that volcano all this time too, filled with the dormant G1 transformers in emergency stasis lock. With some help in the form of a traitorous G1 Ravage sent from the future Cybertron, Megatron finds the Ark and kills the sleeping Optimus Prime. The subsequent paradox wrecks everything... ...Until it's put right again by the Maximals at the top of the third and final season. Optimus Primal saves his predecessor by housing Prime's "spark" (the BW explanation of a Transformer's life force and soul), forcing a mutation into Primal's final BW form, which is far more machine than monkey (by this point the various adventures had cleansed Earth of most of the ambient Energon, and most of the Maximals and Predacons had evolved into more mechanical and technologically powerful beast and vehicle forms). Anyway, adventures continue, with the final battle being between Optimus Primal and a souped up Megatron (who had similarly taken his ancenstor's spark and mutated into a dragon form). The final battle also involved the Nemesis - the previously unnamed Decepticon ship from G1 - being restored and used as the ultimate weapon. By the end of the series, history was "put right", most of the bad guys (and a good percentage of the good guys) are killed, the survivors finally head home with Megatron as a prisoner, and Waspinator is happy at last... ...At least until the sequel series Beast Machines, which turns everything upside down AGAIN and screws things up royally. This was the last North American TF production until this new movie, with the interm being filled in by a variety of imported anime series that do not match the cartoon or comic continuities. Mark [/QB][/QUOTE]
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